Computing: The first 100 years
summary
Starts from the claim that the first stored‑program run is June 21, 1948, then measures hardware progress with concrete examples: Cray‑1 (80 MHz, 8 MB, $10M), VAX‑11/780 at .00625 Cray, a Raspberry Pi cluster equaling many Cray‑1s, an Nvidia Tesla P100 at 66,000× Cray‑1, and a 38‑petaflop machine at ~10^8× Cray‑1. Notes tools and code: Erlang/Elixir for parallel systems, experiments with seat‑based parallel demos, and pushes for a content‑addressable store (IPFS/git‑torrent) and solar‑roof personal nodes to keep data and reduce datacenter energy.
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chapters (42)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:02Why am I doing this
- 2:18Two themes
- 2:40New technologies
- 3:32Experiment
- 5:05Algorithm
- 8:42Parallel Programming
- 8:59History
- 9:42The first program
- 10:22The man dance
- 11:20Williams tube
- 11:30Smallscale experimental machine
- 12:19First computer
- 14:57First supercomputer
- 16:58National Museum of Computing
- 18:54Cray
- 19:31Raspberry Pi
- 21:11Tesla P100
- 22:00Petaflop
- 22:35Timeline
- 22:49Storage
- 23:50Mobile Phone
- 24:13Summary
- 26:35Whats next
- 27:24Hardware is insanely fast
- 27:38Numbers 101
- 27:49The Earth
- 28:04The Ultimate Laptop
- 28:51The Ultimate Printer
- 29:02Planck Length
- 29:18The Biggest Printer
- 29:48Tiny Program
- 30:52Quantum computing
- 32:00Program complexity
- 32:20Dangerous
- 37:51References
- 38:59Creating a computational infrastructure
- 39:26Building a prototype
- 39:37The iPad
- 40:16The ubiquitous computer
- 42:38Supercomputers
- 43:39Thank you
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